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Silas Marner

Silas Marner

  

by George Eliot

Current Events & Pop Culture

Available to teachers only as part of the Teaching Silas Marner Teacher Pass


Teaching Silas Marner Teacher Pass includes:

  • Assignments & Activities
  • Reading Quizzes
  • Current Events & Pop Culture articles
  • Discussion & Essay Questions
  • Challenges & Opportunities
  • Related Readings in Literature & History

Sample of Current Events & Pop Culture


A Suitable Pseudonym

In this article from the Telegraph, journalist Sian Ranscombe writes about prominent women who adopted male personas in order to progress in some part of their life. Surprisingly, there's no mention of J.K. Rowling and her male pseudonym Robert Galbraith…but George Eliot is here. You go, girl. Or…dude?